Machineky foe forming hat-bodies



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAS. S. TAYLOR, OF DANBURY, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINERY FOR FORMING HAT-BODIES.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,454, dated September 13, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES S. TAYLOR, of Danbury, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Forming Fur Hats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, similar letters referring to like parts.

The nature of my invention consists in the combination of a vibrating motion of the picker-cylinder with a pair of cones and eX haust so arranged that the current of fur is alternately shifted from the tip of one cone across on to the tip of the other, in such a manner as to give the required proportions in forming a perfect hat-body.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will describe its construction and operation.

In the drawings: Figure l, is a side elevation, in which the cones are detached, the better to show the machine. Fig. 2, is a plan view, the dotted lines representing the vibrating frame at the eXtreme point of its vibration.

In the drawings z-a is the frame work.

is a vibrating frame pivoted at c.

(Z is the main driving pulley on shaft cZ. On shaft (Z is a driving wheel e, which, by means of belt driving t-he pulley g on shaft g, gives motion to spiral screw ZL (on same shaft) working into gear wheel Z; gear wheel z' by means of disk j and lever c causes vibrating frame Z) to regularly vibrate in such a manner that the picker cylinder Z which revolves in frame b, shall alternately move from right to left over the cones-4a, m, feed rollers. n, n feed apron: m rollers of apron. 0 a wheel, on shaft (Z, driving by a belt 0, pulleys '79 and (l on shaft r. pulley p by a belt drives pulley m2 on feed apron roller m', thus operating feed apron. pulley g, by a belt drives the picker-cylinder Z.

s is a hollow chamber serving as a standard for chucks t, to which cones u are attached'by means of pins t. Upon the inner faces of chucks Z, Z, are beveled wheels v), o which are driven by screw w which is driven by wheel a' (on same shaft) driven by screw L.

g/ is a smaller chamber communicating with chamber s and containing an exhaust or fan e driven by a belt from driver CZ.

In the operation of my invention -motion is put to the machine by crank, the fur is then carried on apron a between feed rollers mi, where it is operated upon by the picker cylinder and thrown into the air over the cones u the vibratory motion of the frame b carrying with it picker-cylinder, distributes the fur alternately and equally from the point of one cone to the point of the other; in the meantime the exhaust e is at work producing a current of air toward cones u* this current catches the impelled fur, carries it to the cones and there retains it; during this, the cones are slowly revolving so as to expose all sides of the current of impelled fur. After the cones have been sufficient-ly covered and the hat bodies are thus formed, they are removed from chucks t, and other cones, (or the same ones after the removal of the bodies) are put on and the operation continued, as before.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming a double revolving pair of cones traversing before a double aperture for feeding the fur onto the bodies, as they traverse before said spouts, as in the patent of Boynton.

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

The combination of the two perforated cones, and exhaust, with one picker and feed arrangement, so arranged that the current of impelled fur is alternately shifted from the tip of one cone, across on to the tip of the other, in such a manner as to give the required proportions in forming a perfect hatbody.

JAMES S. TAYLOR. Vitnesses:

ELIAS R. FRY, Jol-1N J. FRY. 

